[Foundation-l] Re: Wikijunior as a new Sister Project

Thu Sep 8 01:44:59 UTC 2005

The reasons that I'm pushing for a seperate domain for Wikijunior is:

- We need a stable version for kids, that kids and adults alike can't 
vandalise.

- We need a more kid-friendly skin and navigation for the MediaWiki, so 
curious kids don't get sidetracked in "Recently uploaded images" and the 
like.

- We need more attention for the project. We've got at least 55 contributors 
just to the Solar System book, which is fantastic, but we need perfection.

As Wikijunior develops past say, 50 books, we would benefit from a seperate 
editing wiki. While we're creating seperate and publishable reference works, 
the ability to merge them into one greater encyclopedic form.

On Robert's suggestion of Wikijunior being a "stealth" proposal, we've been 
around since mid-2004, I've had something relating to the project docked on 
the front page of the English Meta essentially daily since then, and the 
publicly accessible Board meeting minutes mention the creation of the 
project.

As for the assumption this is a pet project of "some board members", they've 
certainly helped us with their say in discussions and votes, but so have 
many, many other people.

Nick/Zanimum